17. Jun 2025
International Graduate School: POLY-Sustainable Polymers (AgriPolyII)
spokespersons: Prof. Dr. Daniel Wefers, Prof. Dr. Thomas Thurn-Albrecht, coordinator: Lea Ueberham (funding 2024-2027) (link)
POLY-Sustainable Polymers wants to contribute to the change from using plastics one-time to a circular use of polymers. Therefore graduate students and PIs here at MLU Halle (Saale) will investigate and research within the POLY – school (AgriPoly II) with the support of Saxony-Anhalt and the European Union (ESF+). The graduate school aims to improve the training of early-career scientists and support especially female researchers and international scientists.
The International Graduate School “POLY-school” is part of the AgriPoly II – International Graduate Schools in Agricultural and Polymer Sciences at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. AgriPoly II is a graduate school, funded by ESF+ (60%) and National Fund (40%), with the aim of education and training of early career scientists in sustainability in the application of crop plants and polymers. It is divided into two sub-graduate schools: Agri-Explore and POLY-Sustainable Polymers. The research focus of Agri-Explore is resilience of plants in climate crisis and in POLY-Sustainable Polymers the sustainability of polymers, with the bigger topic of circular usage of plastics, is investigated.
